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Post by rayge on Sept 25, 2020 13:36:26 GMT
I've never really understood those posters who write one line about something. What's the point? what indeed?
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 25, 2020 13:36:56 GMT
It's expressing an opinion but it's not adding anything to the discussion, yeah. And yes, it's something you don't see so much here. We don't have fragile but massive male egos like LMG and Matt Wilson who feel threatened by disagreement, that's why. The first post I made on BCB in ca 2005 was about how I thought The Band sucked. Wilson threatened to cut my head off! You didn't know it at the time, but it was a badge of honor.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 25, 2020 13:40:01 GMT
Like C....what the fuck is all that about? He clearly loves the music and it was obviously formative but you've had more outta him about the wickedness of John Coan in the last 12 months than in the previous 10+ about the music he adores.
Why do like something? I just think it's good
Thanks for that!
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 25, 2020 13:41:54 GMT
I have an ex sister-in-law who's an attorney. Before she'd come up to visit, she'd ask me if to get her some pot because I have connections.
On one trip, I handed her her pot and she began extolling its virtues (she was a little drunk) in various permutations about how it made her feel.
After her 10 minute soliloquoy, she asked what it does for me and I said, "It makes music sound better."
That's about as good an analogy on how well I express myself about a lot of things.
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Post by Sneelock on Sept 25, 2020 13:47:04 GMT
I need more cowbell.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Sept 25, 2020 13:57:32 GMT
I'm not as interested in writing about music as I was when I first discovered the Mojo4Music board. Others are much better at expressing their opinions about things and there are only so many times you can say "I agree with so-and-so" before it just sounds like a cop-out. I do enjoy putting words together, and expressing thoughts and sometimes think I should start journalling or something like that, just to get better at it. I read so many brilliant writers who make it look so easy and think "why can't I do that?" when all I need to do is do it. I guess writing about music is a good way to start putting thoughts together, but I don't have any new thoughts about music. I know what it does to me, and I know what it does for me - it makes me feel good (mostly). I've wormed my way into a sort of niche role on message boards as a type of class clown or whatever, and I'm happy to keep that up, as I appreciate the camaraderie of these places more than anything, really.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 25, 2020 14:08:40 GMT
I think we need a new class clown
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Sept 25, 2020 14:14:41 GMT
I can only work with the material you guys give me.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 25, 2020 14:35:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2020 14:45:10 GMT
I take notions to post about music on here. I was more consistent on 4music and at the start of BCB. I started to find the same thing be discussed or the same thing being asked about but in a different way. Also people taking shit personally over music would become tiresome. Also, not enough threads for the Mighty Radiohead.
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Post by cousinlou on Sept 25, 2020 14:58:35 GMT
I like reading what people have to say about music, but discussing not so much. The same in real life, I love talking about music but I don't get easily tempted into discussion anymore. I simply don't care why people think A is better than B and that certainly goes for arguments that A is a better musician than B, or song X is better and more complicated and advanced that Y. These are not the things that play any role in what I like or not.
It's the small things, the organ descend directly after 'Oh, it's a holiday', or that opening guitar riff ( riff?) in 'You're welcome', just before Feargal goes ' Sad girls', or the Chorus in Always Crashing In the Same Car, and millions of little bits like that. It simply lends itself better for talking about than writing.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2020 15:02:05 GMT
Years of collecting it... exposing yourself to it. Building part of your identity around it. Developing opinions... What have you learned? What does it do add up to for you? What’s it all about, Alfie? Well, I guess in every genre I have found something or someone I like. Abba to Zoldar & Clark. I like jazz more than I used too and I still love Dylan and Scott Walker. BCB recommendations made finding the krautrock movement an absolute joy. The (sadly) odd post have some wonderful contributions such as this week's Charlie Megira thread or say Darkness Fish and others on German post punk.They are the real benefits of forums. A vast majority of music I find myself. It is a good feeling though when someone else suddenly talks about a shared love of a lesser known discovery. I like the differing opinions as exasperating as they can be. Forums like Dylans Expecting rain are just devoid of interest because they are just slavish lovefests. He can do no wrong ! I like the Hoff's but in small doses. I always feel that posters there are having their posts typed for them while they are wearing a cardigan and slippers only removing the pipe from their mouths to impart cerebral messages requiring you check you own the right pressing/format and opinion.Debate, actually passion is lacking. It's difficult to write too much about music because it reads like a wine tasting review. Personal feelings for an album are ok but very difficult to convey. I need forums like this and BCB because in my real life no one I know gives a fuck about music as much as I do.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 25, 2020 15:19:51 GMT
I think we need a new class clown I think we need a new Scottish mascot.
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Post by tory on Sept 25, 2020 15:57:45 GMT
Sloop has "connections"!
LOL
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Post by Sneelock on Sept 25, 2020 16:10:53 GMT
I've never seen people sitting around a pickle barrel and shooting the shit but I've heard it's something people used to do. I've been in bait stores where people were sitting around talking instead of buying bait. One assumes they were talking about fishing but I suppose that depends entirely on how much time they spent there. I woulnd't know. I don't really care for fishing.
I used to take my girl to "Free Comic Book Day" - same sort of thing. people sitting around the comic store talking about comics and other things.
Build a better pickle barrel and the world will beat a path to your door. It's nice having people with something in common to talk to.
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